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Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 10:30 PM – Sat, Oct 1, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
NY Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 & OCTOBER 1, 2022 (ongoing)
10:30 PM
Kraine Theater
85 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20; $10 students
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Theater for people who think they don’t like theater. Thirty short plays crammed into an hour, semi-improvised, semi-not, non-illusionistic, spur-of-the-moment, real (whatever that means).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I dunno why, but it seems like you’d go to Phebe’s.
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Friday, September 30, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Steve Lehman & Frédéric Maurin: Ex Machina
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/senior at door; free live stream
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Since this is a co-presentation of the French Orchestre National de Jazz and IRCAM, it isn’t surprising that it melds Jazz and Spectralism, with an IRCAM computer becoming an electronic orchestrator.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic food as As You Are. Streaming at home, usher in Fall with that Parisian classic, the Boulevardier: pour 1-1/2 oz. Bourbon and 3/4 oz. each of sweet Vermouth and Campari into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Friday, September 30, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Friday, September 30, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ata Kak/Lollise
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
7:30 PM
Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$26
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Ata Kak’s story is a familiar one: he made a cassette tape in Ghana in the mid-’90s that sank like a stone even there — but was “discovered” by a Western Alt-Popmeister years later, who sought Ata Kak out, distributed the cassette worldwide, and made Kak A Thing. In most of these cases, though, you wonder what, beyond a good backstory, these lost artists bring to the table. Ata Kak’s off-kilter Highlife-Hip Hop isn’t only absolutely unique, though: it’s a stone gas. That local Art-Afropop sensation Lollise is opening only makes this even more of a Big Night.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A show this fabulous is worth a stroll from Persian gem Eyval.
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Friday, September 30, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Toshio Hosakawa: Hanjo
FRIDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 & OCTOBER 2, 2022
7:30 PM FRIDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$50
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Hosakawa writes tight, concise operas, the music full of suggestion. This one’s based on Mishima’s take on a Noh play. Catapult Opera enslists the Talea Ensemble for expert instrumental accompaniment to a splendid cast of singers (including Abigail Fischer!).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m pretty eager to get back to the Knickerbocker Bar and Grill for caviar pie and a Martini and some nondiscript main dish or other.
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Friday, September 30, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Peter Evans Ensemble
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$30-$40 in person
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Trumpeter Peter Evans may have played an uninteresting note in an uninteresting context at some point — but I’ve never been there to hear it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: José Andrés goes Mediterranean at the New York transplant of his huge D.C. Zaytinya.
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Thursday, September 29, 2022, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Spektral: Kyoka/Kamran Sadeghi
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
9:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$20.60
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Kyoka’s glitchy electronic songs are positively poppy. Kamran Sadeghi’s pieces veer more toward the minimal and spacey.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Korean at Insa (as always, stay out of the ugly noisy dining room and opt for the plush bar/lounge).
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Thursday, September 29, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Composer Portrait: Liza Lim
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
8:00 PM
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
$20-$30; $17-$25 seniors; $15-$22 students & under 25
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Liza Lim is a very good composer — and a very interesting one. She’s Modernisitically gnarly, but can be lyrical when she needs to be. She incorporates various world music styles that catch her interest, but has an almost unique ability to do so without seeming merely eclectic — and, by keeping a respectful distance, absolutely not appropriative. Tonight, there’s a new piece played by the sovereign JACK Quartet; it was originally supposed to involve having them rope-tied to their instruments and maybe each other, but that part was removed. The other new piece, played by JACK’s amazing cellist, Jay Campbell, has each string of the cello attached by a string to the corresponding string of a violin across the stage, so when he plays his cello, he’s also causing sounds to emanate from the violin — in essence playing a duet with himself. Now THAT should be something to see and hear.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This List is on a Hunan kick, and Happy Hunan makes it happy.
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Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Seán Curran Dance Company & Darrah Carr Dance: Céilí
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 – OCTOBER 2, 2022
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$25-$49
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Seán Curran, a Post-Modern choreographer/dancer from New York who is fond of his roots, teams up with Darrah Carr, a leading Professional Irish Dancer (from actual Ireland), for trad Irish dance-off. A clue to the nature of the proceedings is provided by the choice of accompanying musicians: Dana Lynn & Kyle Sanna, an instrumental and compositional duo who have two feet in contemporary Alt-Pop/Classical and the other two in Trad Irish.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ardesia Wine Bar, still one of the City’s most pleasant.
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Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 8:00 PM – Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Jordan Reed: Flamboyan
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
8:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$5-$20
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Puerto Rican idenity and “womanhood”.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Everybody loves the neo-Cantonese American at Bonnie’s so much that I have to recommend it — even if you can’t possibly get in.
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Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Ping Chong: Lazarus 1972-2022
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 – OCTOBER 2, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 16)
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$11-$61 THURSDAY; THEREAFTER: $30; $25 students/seniors advance; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
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When Ping Chong broke through 50 years ago with Lazarus(about the New Testament resurrected character reappearing in then-contemporary New York), nobody else was doing the kind of imagistic multi-media theater that he was (at least not nearly as seamlessly and well). Now, the rest of experimental theater has caught up with him, so that while he’s still extraordinary, he’s no longer unique: the fate of an originator. It’ll be more than interesting to see Chong revisit his breakout piece half a century on, bringing it into the present. A must.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Dim Sum (duh) at Dim Sum Palace.
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Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 1, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tyshawn Sorey: Monocromatic Light (Afterife)
TUESDAY & THURSDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 & 29 – OCTOBER 1, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 8)
7:30 PM TUESDAY & THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$49-$104
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Morton Feldman’s influence on Tyshawn Sorey’s composing has always been apparent. But this is Sorey’s express, well not exactly tribute to, but continuation of, Feldman. So expect to be hypnotized. Directed by Peter Sellars!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Back to Donahue’s Steak House (not really a steakhouse) for more Mad Men recreation.
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Thursday, September 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Gertrude Stein: Four Saints in Three Acts
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 – OCTOBER 2, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 9)
7:00 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Doxsee @ Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$15-$35
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Hot on the heels of his revival of his antic epic one-person performance of The Patsy — as much fun as I’ve ever had in a theater in my life — NYC theater great David Greenspan premieres a one-person performance of Gertrude Stein’s libretto to Four Saints in Three Acts. You won’t walk out humming, as you do from the opera — but I guaranty you you’ll walk out grinning.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bow down before El Rey de Pescado.
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Thursday, September 29, 2022, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Petr Kotik: Many Many Women
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
6:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on 3rd Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; $15 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
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For all you 1970s nostalgists, a marathon staged performance (lasting till Midnight) of Peter Kotik’s Gertrude Stein-based durational work from the middle of that decade. This post-Cagean stuff was foundational for today’s Alt Classical. The S.E.M. Ensemble emphasizes that you can come and go whenever you want over the duration of the performance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, forget anything after the show other than the Hollow Nickel. Before or (following S.E.M.’s directive) during, quick Mexican at El Zasón. Streaming at home, have many many Pink Ladies: pour 1-1/2 oz. Gin and 1/2 oz. each of Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy and Grenadine, with 1 small egg white, into a cocktail shaker WITHOUT ice. Dry shake. Add ice. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Oct 1, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Kris Davis
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 – OCTOBER 1, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Kris Davis’s instantly recognizable, angular style makes her one of the best player-composers in current jazz. That her instrument is the piano is almost beside the point: her real instrument is her mind.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Erik Frieldander, Satoshi Takeishi & Mark Helias
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
8:00 PM
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Erik Friedlander’s experimental-jazz-Americana cello style is unique.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thai seafood at Fish Cheeks.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ikue Mori, Ned Rothenberg & Alex Waterman/Che Chen, Talice Lee, Barry Weisblat & Alex Zhang Hungtai
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$15
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A bunch of local experimental musicians who have never played with each other (I mean Che and Talice have played together, obvs, what with living in the same apartment and all) play with each other.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Red Sauce with a view at Giando on the Water.
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Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 1, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
FC Bergman: 300 el x 50 el x 30 el
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 – OCTOBER 1, 2022
7:30 PM
BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$35-$110
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Belgian avant-theater is usually a good bet. Here, the FC Bergman company turns the Harvey Theater into a village in the woods (with a large population of both humans and animals) while video cameras take us behind closed doors. Meanwhile a flood is coming — and the title refers to the Biblical dimensions of Noah’s Ark.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza at Omma Grassa.
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Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
HOLDTIGHT: when the blossom passes, what remains?
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 – OCTOBER 2, 2022
7:30 PM
the cell theatre
338 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$45-$90
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Exploring how humans can better live in holistic balance with the Earth. On second thought, maybe I don’t recommend this.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I'm going to keep sending you to Qanoon: their home-style Palestinian is SO good.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tribeca New Music: Concert for the Midterms — Polical Music That Kicks Ass
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
7:00 PM
DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 door; $15 students/seniors advance; $20 students/seniors door
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Including music by Frederick Rzewski (as you’d hope and expect) and Frank Zappa (whose politics I’m not sure were actually that great).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Theoretically boring, in practice delicious, Italian from the oven at Ci Siamo.
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Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Oct 1, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Minor Theater: Marie It’s Time
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 – OCTOBER 1, 2022
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
10:30 PM SATURDAY
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Hudson Square, Manhattan
$25-$45; first 10 tickets each performance $10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A fucked-up (their words) meta-theatrical musical mixtape of Woyzeck, with (as is increasingly common these days) Marie as the main focus rather than collateral damage.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian at Piccolo Cucina Osteria.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Steve Hauschildt/Devin Shaffer
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$23.69
TICKETS + INFORMATION
From Chicago: Steve Hauschildt is spacey and glitchy; Devin Shaffer is spacey and folk-poppy. Nice.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Oaxacan food at Claro is really good — and the backyard garden is a wonderful place to eat.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Zoh Amba: “Bhakti” Record Release
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Zoh Amba, a really exciting saxophonist, celebrates the release of her extremely promising new album (albeit without superstar drummer Tyshawn Sorey, who’s otherwise engaged this week). If you like Ayler and Ornette, this is the place to be.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, have an Erin (a really lovely cocktail): pour 2 oz. Rye and 1/2 oz. each of sweet Vermouth, Suze, and Bigalet China-China (or Golden Moon Amer dit Picon), with 5/8 teaspoon of Allspice Dram, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an orange twist and a lemon twist.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
7:30 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$30.90
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Caroline Shaw and this charismatic quartet celebrate the release of their second album together. If you’re looking for contemporary Alt Classical with folk elements and a high melody Q that never becomes cloying, you’ve come to the right place.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun barbecue at Pig Beach.
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Tue, Sep 27, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 – OCTOBER 2, 2022
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10-$71
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Don’t waste your time wondering how one of the best Flamenco dance companies in the world is located in New York City. Just go see them.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Well I mean obviously you’ve got to go to El Quijote after this, right?
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Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Tomeka Reid Quartet
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$30-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What’s better than cellist Tomeka Reid? Cellist Tomeka Reid playing with guitarist Mary Halvorson!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Possibly over-elaborate cocktails and José Andrés bar snacks high up in Nubeluz.
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Tue, Sep 27, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Elevator Repair Service: Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 – OCTOBER 2, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 16)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
1:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$60-$160
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Elevator Repair Service does their usual meta-text-recreation thing with a debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley in the ‘60s. I remember, when I was in Law School, pulling God and Man at Yale off the library shelf to peruse during a study break; I had never read it. I couldn’t believe how repellant it was. Liberals like to present the current version of the Amercian Conservative movement as some kind of aberrational departure from something that used to be reasonable. Don’t be fooled. Those people have been engaged in a bigoted attempt to destroy American democracy for as long as they’ve been a movement.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tyshawn Sorey: Monocromatic Light (Afterife)
TUESDAY & THURSDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 & 29 – OCTOBER 1, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 8)
7:30 PM TUESDAY & THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$49-$104
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Morton Feldman’s influence on Tyshawn Sorey’s composing has always been apparent. But this is Sorey’s express, well not exactly tribute to, but continuation of, Feldman. So expect to be hypnotized. Directed by Peter Sellars!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Back to Donahue’s Steak House (not really a steakhouse) for more Mad Men recreation.
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Tue, Sep 27, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Victor I. Cazares: american (tele)visions
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 – OCTOBER 2, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 16)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
New York Theater Workshop
79 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$45
INFORMATION + TICKETS
More multiverse! This time surrounding an undocumented Mexican family.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pub grub that is far better than it has any right to be at Sidney’s Five.
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Tue, Sep 27, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Gracie Gardner: I’m Revolting
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 – OCTOBER 2, 2021 (continuing through OCTOBER 16)
7:00 PM TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Linda Gross Theater, The Atlantic Theater Company
336 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$25-$97
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Gracie Gardner goes pro with what will undoubtedly be a hilarious look at skin cancer treatment.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Homestyle Palestinian at Qanoon.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ithaki
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
7:00 PM
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Admission unspecified (which usually means $10 or $20 at the door)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ithaki, a Free Jazz quartet led by bassist Nick Panoutsos, is really wild. They’re taping an EP here tonight, so your breathing and shouting shall be preserved for posterity.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Venezuelan at Casa Ora.
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Tue, Sep 27, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Oct 1, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
The Wooster Group feat. Eric Berryman: Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 – OCTOBER 1, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 7)
7:00 PM
Performing Garage
33 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan
$38
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Another of The Wooster Group’s “live record albums”, this time a performance of a collection of examples of the Black American storytelling form called Toasts. Dolemite fans need not hesitate.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: From one garage to another: Antique Garage is so cute that you tend to forget how good the food is. And, it was Mediterranean before everybody and his brother were.
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Tue, Sep 27, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 6:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 – OCTOBER 2, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – SUNSET TUESDAY & THURSDAY
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM FRIDAY – SUNDAY
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Advance ticket required: $18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Monday, September 26, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
CHAI
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
8:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This great Japanese girl group started out Pop-Punk and then drifted into dreamy Lite Funk — but have stayed great great great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Indian at Masala Times.
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Monday, September 26, 2022, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jaimie Breezy Branch Celebration of Life 6/17/83 – 8/22/22
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
5:00 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Free (by RSVP)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jaimie Branch was not only a force of trumpet, not only a force of music — she was a force of life. Various musical friends get together to celebrate her brief existence. (There will be a second-line procession from The Record Shop starting at 4 PM).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tacos at the San Pedro Inn.
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Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 – OCTOBER 2, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 – OCTOBER 2, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train. The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, September 25, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
75 Dollar Bill/Sunwatchers
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Ticket price TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two of the most expansive experimental bands in New York share the bill. Endless fun for the benefit of the Women’s Prison Association.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unexpected but not really incongruous Japanese-Ashkenazi mash-up at Shalom Japan.
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Sunday, September 25, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Timo Andres/Annie Hart
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Composer/pianist Timo Andres you know. Keyboardist/analogue synth maven Annie Hart maybe you don’t. They’ll play improvised music and composed music by themselves and people like Philip Glass and Ann Southam.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice neighborhood Roman — and you’re in the neighborhood! — at Camillo.
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Sunday, September 25, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The 18th Annual NYC In C
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
8:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20-$40 advance; $25-$45 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
LPR’s annual “Everybody In New York Gets Together To Play Terry Riley’s In C” show. It never gets old.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Commerce Inn’s Old American food should be nice in the Fall.
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Sunday, September 25, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Richard Thomas, Alison Jackson & Philip Edward Fisher: The COVID-19 Variations
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
7:30 PM
Works and Process
Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$5-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Remember the COVID Pandemic? Early on in it, Richard Thomas (the guy who wrote Jerry Springer — The Opera) composed a purportedly Gershwinesque set of piano variations. Having heard the piece, filmmaker Alison Jackson made a set of short films to accompany it, featuring real and fake versions of various well-known people touching on the Pandemic. Tonight, pianist Philip Edward Fisher plays the variations while the films are shown.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Light Viennese at Café Sabarsky.
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Sunday, September 25, 2022, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Flatbed Follies
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
TBD & 6:00 PM
SUNDAY TBD: Hillel Place & Flatbush Avenue, Midwood, Brooklyn
SUNDAY TBD: Buffalo Avenue & Bergen Street, Crown Heights, Brooklyn
SUNDAY 6:00 PM: Alexander Avenue Open Street, Mott Haven, Bronx
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus takes it to the street!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In Midwood, you might as well hike over to Di Fara Pizza and see how they’re doing in the Post-Dom Era. In Crown Heights, Nigerian at Wakky’s. In Mott Haven, it’s almost worth going to the show just for the chance to eat New York City’s best barbecue at Hudson Smokehouse.
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Sunday, September 25, 2022, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bang on a Can Music Series: Ned Rothenberg
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
4:00 PM
The Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Road, Long Island City, Queens
Free (with Museum admission)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ned Rothenberg plays a solo recital on Japanese and Western winds and reeds.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You walk past the classic Bel Aire Diner and you want to go in.
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Sunday, September 25, 2022, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
DURATIONS: Quiet Time feat. D.K./Nueen/Gi Gi/Ben Bondy
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
1:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$26.17
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ambient with various inflections.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Believe it or not, Clover Club will be open both before and after this show: not only one of the best cocktail bars in New York City, but some of the best food at a cocktail bar.
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Saturday, September 24, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Slauson Malone 1: The Stone Breakers
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
8:00 PM
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$18.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Try to forget who his father is and remember that Slauson Malone used to work with Standing on a Corner. His music straddles Alt Hip-Hop and experimental jazz and is (his father would kill him) kind of conceptual.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: See if you can get into unapologetic Indian sensation Dhamaka.
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Saturday, September 24, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kali Malone
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
8:00 PM
LPR @ First Unitarian Congregational Society
116 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
More dirge than drone.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It is so nice that there’s now a place in Brooklyn Heights that can be recommended without qualification: the absolutely wonderful Inga’s Bar.
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Saturday, September 24, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, September 24, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sharon Harms: Village Composers and Stephen Dembski
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
7:30 PM
The Village Trip
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20; $15 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The late Stephen Dembski’s (not-Post) Modernism isn’t the kind of music this List likes, particularly. But he could write attractively. And he had friends like Eve Beglarian and Paula Matthusen, who are participating in this program — whom this List ADORES.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The broth is particularly rich at E.A.K. Ramen.
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Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Elevator Repair Service: Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 & 25, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 16)
7:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
1:30 PM SUNDAY
Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$60-$160
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Elevator Repair Service does their usual meta-text-recreation thing with a debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley in the ‘60s. I remember, when I was in Law School, pulling God and Man at Yale off the library shelf to peruse during a study break; I had never read it. I couldn’t believe how repellent it was. Liberals like to present the current version of the Amercian Conservative movement as some kind of aberrational departure from something that used to be reasonable. Don’t be fooled. Those people have been evil bigots intent on destroying American democracy for as long as they’ve been a movement.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 5:00 PM – Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Kinesis Project/Opera on Tap/Anti-Social Music: Capacity, or: the Work of Crackling
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 & 25, 2022
5:00 PM
Locomotive Lawn
Riverside Park South, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
An immersive geologically inspired exploration of the human capacity for joy and grief in relation to the natural process of the earth’s cracking (how do people think of this stuff?). The Anti-Social Music composers are a really good bunch. Go to this.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hmmmm, there’s now an Empellón Taqueria up there.
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Saturday, September 24, 2022, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Sydney Spann & Michelle Luong
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
3:00 PM
Issue Project Room @ Ridgewood Reservoir
Ridgewood Reservior, Highland Park, Queens
Free ($10 suggested donation)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two experimental mulitidisciplinary artists who each evokes in their performances (among many other things) (MANY other things) their experiences as care workers give an outdoor collaborative performance by the Ridgewood Reservoir.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s a bit of a hike — but what isn’t from Highland Park? — but this is your chance to go to German classic Zum Stammtisch.
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Saturday, September 24, 2022, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Flux Saturdays: Help Wanted
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
3:00 PM
Colonel’s Row Building 404A, Governors Island, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A live performance piece by Kihori Kimaya, and some looped screenings by others, concerning immigrant domestic workers — and their invisibility.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lots to eat and drink on Governors Island, with my usual shout out to the almost ridiculously scenic and pleasant Island Oyster, which doesn’t need to have food (and drink!) nearly as good as it does.
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Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 1:30 PM – Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Arts for Art: InGardens
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 & 25, 2022
1:30 PM
First Street Green Art Park
33 East 1st Street, East Village, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two more afternoons of Free Jazz. Pride of place goes to the mighty duo of William Parker (forgoing his usual bass for percussion and reeds) and Hamid Drake (on percussion) at 2:30 PM on Sunday — but it’s all pretty great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hard to be there and not stroll over to Katz’s Delicatessen.
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Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 10:30 PM – Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
NY Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 & 24, 2022 (ongoing)
10:30 PM
Kraine Theater
85 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Theater for people who think they don’t like theater. Thirty short plays crammed into an hour, semi-improvised, semi-not, non-illusionistic, spur-of-the-moment, real (whatever that means).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I dunno why, but it seems like you’d go to Phebe’s.
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Friday, September 23, 2022, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Escape: Eartheater
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
9:00 PM
Paragon
990 Broadway, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Eartheater made two great albums of noisy electronic experimental pop, and then one great album of noisy acoustic pop (with electronics). I don’t even know how she did that last thing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cool Vietnamese at Little Mo.
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Friday, September 23, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Antonio Rey: Flamenco Guitar
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$30 advance; $35 door; $25 students/seniors at door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Modern Flamenco.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great pita, good stuff to put on it at Bedouin Tent.
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Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Irons Out/The Scene Is Now (FRI)/Gold Dime (SAT)
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 & 24, 2022
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Ticket price TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Don’t know who Irons Out are — but I do know that 75 Dollar Bill (playing here Sunday) released a track by that name last year. Could it be? As for the openers, Gold Dime are good noise pop punk, but the Marxist post-punk of the venerable The Scene Is Now is even better.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Persian tapas at Masquerade.
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Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Anthony Tidd: Quite Sane
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 & 24, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & SATURDAY Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$30-$40 in person; $20 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Twenty years ago, bassist-composer Anthony Tidd made a splash with a set of pieces for an octet he called Quite Sane that was kind of an easier-going, poppier M-Base. Apparently not one to rush things, he’s now made a follow-up.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, my beloved Italian-Ashkenazi mash-up Mark’s Off Madison. Streaming at home, have a Churchill: pour 1-1/2 oz. Scotch, 1/2 oz. each of sweet Vermouth and Cointreau, and 1/4 oz. lime juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Old Fashioned glass (neat). Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods: Violet
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 & 24, 2022
7:30 PM
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Meg Stuart is one fierce choreographer.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: If you have any doubt that the Manhattan restaurant seen is repetitious, moribund, and based on the premise (which in Manhattan is probably true) that diners are incurious and, indeed, fearful, go to Marc Forgione’s new occupation of the One Fifth space.
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Friday, September 23, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Colors of Raga: Bhuvanesh Komkali
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
7:30 PM
Brooklyn Raga Massive
Gaia NoMaya
510 Flatbush Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Garden, Brooklyn
$28.38
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A Hindustani vocal recital: absorbing, transporting. And the backroom at Gaia NoMaya is a lovely venue.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You wouldn’t expect a wellness center to have good cocktails — but Gaia NoMaya does. Maybe the food is good, too.
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Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
OPERA
Jojo Abot feat. Esperanza Spalding: A God of Her Own Making
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 & 24, 2022
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$49.23
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
An immersive performance providing a healing pathway to the divine. I hope everybody is feeling all healed and mellow when the Fascists complete their takeover of the West.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: How much am I loving the Southwestern pub grub at Santa Fe BK? Lots.
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Friday, September 23, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Meta-Phys Ed.: The Banality of Evil
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 & 23 – 24, 2022
7:00 PM
The Tank
312 West 36th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$20-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A neo-noir take on Hannah Arendt’s study of how ordinary normal people become murderous authoritarian/totalitarians (or authoritarian/totalitarian-supporters). Not that that could possibly have any relevance here now.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: One is suspicious of the Pan-Asian at Hidden Leaf. But one never knows.
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Friday, September 23, 2022, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Petr Kotik: Many Many Women
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 (also SEPTEMBER 29 at Roulette)
5:00 PM
S.E.M. Ensemble
Willow Place Auditorium
26 Willow Place, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This is a free preview performance of a staged production that will play next week for $20 at Roulette (don’t know if the full staging will be given tonight). For all you 1970s nostalgists, a marathon six-hour performance of Peter Kotik’s Gertrude Stein-based durational work from the middle of that decade (S.E.M. emphasizes that you can come and go whenever you want over the duration of the performance). This stuff is foundational for today’s Alt Classical.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The duration of this performance seems to cover the opening hours of almost every place nearby (at least as far as kitchens are concerned), but I suppose you could do what S.E.M. says and sneak out for a cocktail and a burger at The Long Island Bar at some point.
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Friday, September 23, 2022, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jamie xx/Four Tet/Floating Points
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
4:30 PM
Forest Hills Stadium
1 Tennis Place, Forest Hills, Queens
$50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you feel like Poptronica, Jamie xx, Four Tet, and Floating Points are pretty much as good as it gets. A great triple bill, actually.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Queens location of Cuban standard Guantanamera.
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Thursday, September 22, 2022, 8:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Pussy Riot
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
8:30 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pussy Riot has shed some members and moved from Punk to Hyper-Pop since they first impinged on our consciousness. But they’re still great — and more relevant than ever.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Georgian at Old Tbilisi Garden.
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Thursday, September 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Victoria Keddie & Rose Kallal
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Electronics and visuals. (I GUARANTY you that the live stream will be a waste.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home (poor thing), have a Scotch Violet: pour 2 oz. blended Scotch, 3/4 oz. Crème de Violette, 1 oz. lemon juice, and 1/4 oz. Honey Syrup (don’t get scared: you just stir together equal parts of honey and water until the honey dissolves) into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with a lemon wheel.
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Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Marissa Joyce Stamps: Blue Fire Burns the Hottest
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 – 24, 2022
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
Exponential Festival
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two Black men carry on a boxing rivalry that has endured through generations of their families — figuring out, as they fight, that there is an extraneous power forcing this on them.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pinsa and other Roman specialities at Montesacro (a friend just texted me from dinner there and was LOVING it).
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Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Robyn Orlin: And so you see… our honorable blue sky and ever enduring sun… can only be consumed slice by slice…
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 – 24, 2022
7:30 PM
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$15-$35; $10 student rush
TICKETS + INFORMATION
South African-living-in-I-think-Berlin (and Big In France) choreographer Robyn Orlin likes long titles, loopy communicative works, and tackling real-life issues (although never ever in a “kitchen sink” manner: her work is suggestive, not declaratory). She’s always been proud of how she pisses people off — but she doesn’t mean people like us. She delights people like us.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Paella at Socarrat.
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Thursday, September 22, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Arto Lindsay feat. Melvin Gibbs
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
7:00 PM
The Sultan Room
234 Starr Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$25.14
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Any chance to see the No Brazilian Wave singer/guitarist/visionary Arto Lindsay is exciting — but when he’s accompanied by the beyond-fabulous bassist Melvin Gibbs it becomes earth-shattering.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Peter’s Crunchy Red Tacos truck outside the Jefferson Avenue L stop is really really good.
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Thursday, September 22, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Rirkrit Tiravanija
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
7:00 PM
John Giorno Octopus Series
Performance Space New York
150 1st Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija organizes (I would like to personally thank Performance Space New York for not saying “curates”) an evening of performance, multidisciplinary are, what have you.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: World-beating spicy fried chicken sandwiches at Rowdy Rooster. (They close when sold out, so to be safe go before the show.)
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Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Gertrude Stein: Four Saints in Three Acts
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 & 22 – 25, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 9)
7:00 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Doxsee @ Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$15-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Hot on the heels of his revival of his antic epic one-person performance of The Patsy — as much fun as I’ve ever had in a theater in my life — NYC theater great David Greenspan premieres a one-person performance of Gertrude Stein’s libretto to Four Saints in Three Acts. You won’t walk out humming, as you do from the opera — but I guaranty you you’ll walk out grinning.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bow down before El Rey de Pescado.
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Thursday, September 22, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Anne Terrail: Duck Parade
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
7:00 PM
The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ann Terrail has written a piece reminiscing about the restaurant in which she grew up, run by her father, the legendary restaurateur Claude Terrail (who himself had wanted to go into the theater until his father pressed him into the family restaurant business instead — and who had daughter Ann with a wife whose father was movie mogul Jack Warner): the Pressed Duck capital of the world, La Tour d’Argent (now run by Ann’s half-brother).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bar Bête cuz you’re gonna want something French.
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Thursday, September 22, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 7:00 PM – Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Exotic Sin/Anja Lauvdal
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 & 23, 2022
7:00 PM
Blank Forms
468 Grand Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Exotic Sin duo is a Spiritual Jazz/Mimimalist mashup, employing along with their synthesizers and array of odd instruments, horns that belonged to duo member Naima Karlsson’s grandfather — and her grandfather was Don Cherry! In a rare showing of Swedish-Norwegian amity, the bill is shared by folktronica/electropop explorer Anja Lauvdal, who started out as a jazz musician and went very far from there. And we Brooklynites can take comfort that our own questing trumpeter Nate Wooley plays with Lauvdal on Thursday and Exotic Sin on Saturday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The newly revived, slightly relocated Nigerian spot Buka is now fully reopened. And boy is it good.
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Wed, Sep 21, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Dan Weiss
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 24, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dan Weiss, a jazz drummer who likes heavy metal, is about as interesting as you’d guess. Check out the quartet he has Saturday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Loren Connors/Jeff Fuccillo: Disturbed Strings/Ayal Senior & Gray/Smith: Az Yashir
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lotsa space tonight. Space Blues guitar original Loren Connors — there’s literally no one like him — and then two string players who started in different places but then became acolytes of Space Americana master John Fahey: Jeff Fuccillo and Ayal Senior.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Red Sauce with a view at Giando on the Water.
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Wed, Sep 21, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Fall for Dance
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 24, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 2)
8:00 PM
New York City Center
131 West 55th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
City Center’s annual budget festival of international dance (budget for Institutional High Culture, that is: much of what gets Listed here costs around $20). A highlight this week is Melissa Toogood and Herman Cornejo dancing a new piece by Pam Tanowitz.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Spectacular setting, OK food at La Grande Boucherie.
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Wed, Sep 21, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER / OPERA
María Irene Fornes: MUD/DROWNING
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 25, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 9)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Mabou Mines, 122 CC
150 First Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$25; $20 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
María Irene Fornes is a giant of New York alternative theater, getting her due now more than she ever did during her life. You might call her fragmented but empathetic style Chekhov Goes Bonkers (all for the good, of course). This double bill presents a powerful play, MUD, and a short opera, DROWNING, for which Philip Glass has written new music. This of us who were lucky enough to get to see JoAnne Akalaitis’s spot-on production in its first run two years ago (trying not to sound TOO smug here) know what a great, probing night at the theater it provides.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: More of the hearty food of the Chinese Northwest at Jiang’s Kitchen (as so often with immigrant cuisine, best not to think of the circumstances under which they left).
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Wed, Sep 21, 2022, 7:30 PM – Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Charles Altura: Double Drum Quartet
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 & 22, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$30-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I am unfamiliar, actually, with the leader, guitarist Charles Altura. But his band is pretty fucking fabulous.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Infused cocktails that are either too much or just enough, depending on how you like at Apotheke, which just opened a new branch uptown in NoMad.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Meta-Phys Ed.: The Banality of Evil
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 & 23 – 24, 2022
7:00 PM
The Tank
312 West 36th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$20-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A neo-noir take on Hannah Arendt’s study of how ordinary normal people become murderous authoritarian/totalitarians (or authoritarian/totalitarian-supporters). Not that that could possibly have any relevance here now.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: One is suspicious of the Pan-Asian at Hidden Leaf. But one never knows.
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Wed, Sep 21, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Minor Theater: Marie It’s Time
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 25, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 1)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM FRIDAY
10:30 PM SATURDAY
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Hudson Square, Manhattan
$25-$45; first 10 tickets each performance $10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A fucked-up (their words) meta-theatrical musical mixtape of Woyzeck, with (as is increasingly common these days) Marie as the main focus rather than collateral damage.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian at Piccolo Cucina Osteria.
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Wed, Sep 21, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
The Institute of Useless Activity: THIS and THAT
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 24, 2022
7:00 PM
Chocolate Factory
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, Queens
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
”THAT” is the creation of the universe; “THIS” is the people within it. A bunch of imagistic vignettes.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Brazilian from nice people at Beija Flor.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sofia Kourtesis
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$28.23
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Peru-by-way-of-Berlin electronic dance/pop artist Sofia Kourtesis is just terrific: intricate, catchy, distinctive.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Oaxacan food at Claro is really good — and the backyard garden is a wonderful place to eat.
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Wed, Sep 21, 2022, 6:30 PM – Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
William Parker
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 & 22, 2022
6:30 & 8:00 PM
Concert in the Catacombs
The Catacombs, Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It’s a sign of Free Jazz bassist William Parker’s absolute greatness that even though he’s been one of the crucial musicians in New York, and the most preeminent in the world, for decades, no one would think of taking him for granted. The only thing more amazing than his fingers is his mind (which in Free Jazz is what’s crucial).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good pub grub, good drink at Sea Witch.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Beau Bree Rhee: Shadow of the Sea
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2022 (also OCTOBER 12 & 20)
6:00 PM
The Kitchen @ Madison Square Park
Madison Square Park, Madison Square, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Beau Bree Rhee’s reflection on the sea (and its incomprehensible shadow) starts with dancers on the far West (Pier 64) and East (East River Promenade at East 10th Street) Sides, whom the audience can join at 5 PM for a walk to the Park for a full performance (RSVP required). The bulk of the peformance then takes place at the Park.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fast casual Chinese with a difference at Milu.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
False Harmonics: Battle Trance/Darius Jones–Shahzad Ismaily–Ryan Sawyer Trio
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
8:00 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$24.75 advance; $30.87 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A night of experimental music featuring the saxophone. Travis Laplante’s Battle Trance quartet features four of them actually, playing with fierce beauty. Darius Jones is in a class by himself on alto — but Shahzad Ismaily on guitars/string instruments/electronics and Ryan Sawyer on drums are unique players in classrooms nearby.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A fine burger and outstanding shrimp cocktail at Red Hook Tavern.
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Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
The Wooster Group feat. Eric Berryman: Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 24, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 7)
8:00 PM
Performing Garage
33 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan
$38
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Another of The Wooster Group’s “live record albums”, this time a performance of a collection of examples of the Black American storytelling form called Toasts. Dolemite fans need not hesitate.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: From one garage to another: Antique Garage is so cute that you tend to forget how good the food is. And, it was Mediterranean before everybody and his brother were.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tim Hecker/Amma Ateria
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
8:00 PM
Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The real thing — genuinely experimental electronic music, pop-adjacent though it might be. Tim Hecker’s been at it for a while, and you probably know him. Amma Ateria, from Hong Kong, maybe you don’t. But you should.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tacos at Torterilleria Los Hermanos.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Pascal Dusapin: Piano Études
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
7:30 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20-$25 advance; $25-$30 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pianist Taka Kigawa plays Pascal Dusapin’s complete Piano Études for his annual LPR show. It’s odd that Dusapin has written Piano Ètudes, actually, since for years the composer (a keyboard player himself) eschewed keyboard pieces. Dusapin is typically French in his clarity — but his microtonality is a lot fiercer-sounding than the limpidity of the Spectralists.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Staten Island pizza at Denino’s Greenwich Village.
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Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
HOLDTIGHT: when the blossom passes, what remains?
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 24, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 2)
7:30 PM
the cell theatre
338 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$45-$90
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Exploring how humans can better live in holistic balance with the Earth. On second thought, maybe I don’t recommend this.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I'm going to keep sending you to Qanoon: their home-style Palestinian is SO good.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
International Contemporary Ensemble: Lesley Mok/Chris Ryan Williams/Fay Victor
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Good composers, superb players. What’s not to like?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Gracie Gardner: I’m Revolting
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 25, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 16)
7:00 PM TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Linda Gross Theater, The Atlantic Theater Company
336 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$25-$97
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Gracie Gardner goes pro with what will undoubtedly be a hilarious look at skin cancer treatment.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Homestyle Palestinian at Qanoon.
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Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Victor I. Cazares: american (tele)visions
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 25, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 16)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
New York Theater Workshop
79 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$45-$65
INFORMATION + TICKETS
More multiverse! This time surrounding an undocumented Mexican family.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pub grub that is far better than it has any right to be at Sidney’s Five.
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Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
One-Eighth: My Onliness
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 24, 2022
7:00 PM
New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street, West Village, Manhattan
$25; $18 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Polish proto-Dada (there are so many things to discover in this great wide world of ours). With music by Kamala Sankaram!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Picture-perfect neighborhood Italian at Malatesta Trattoria.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 11:00 AM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Niyoosha Ahmadikhoo & Julie Dind: Neurodivergent Pickling
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
11:00 AM
The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two neurodivergent multidisciplinary artists make Persian pickles over the course of many hours.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Middle Americant food at The HiHi Room — and tonight they’re having special cocktails!
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Monday, September 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Zoh Amba, Micah Thomas, Trevor Dunn & Billy Martin
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
8:00 PM
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Zoe Amba has been making a lot of noise on sax in this City over the last couple of years — and you can’t accuse her quartet tonight of being anything short of spectacular.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thai seafood at Fish Cheeks.
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Monday, September 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Talibam! vs. The Germans
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Ticket price TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Don’t know who The Germans are, but my money’s on the Punk Jazz phenoms Talibam!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza from the money behind Lilia at Fini Pizza.
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Monday, September 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Rosalia
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
8:00 PM
Radio City Music Hall
1260 6th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
Dynamic pricing so I don’t fucking know but whatever it is IT’S TOO MUCH
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You probably already know how great Rosalia and her Future Flamenco are — very much including her most recent album (featuring Caroline Shaw, for the beknighted kind of List reader who’s afraid of contemporary pop music). So having noted the existence of these shows, let me instead rant for a moment about Big Time Mainstream Pop Concerts and dyamic pricing. As far as I’m concerned, this is a perfect example of the utter prenicious evil of what is over-optimistically referred to as Late Stage Capitalism. The Market rules all — and no one wants to leave any money on the table. Tickets are priced strictly according to market. So prices for desirable shows immediately shoot up to stupid levels, making them attainable only by the rich or the idiotically improvident. I say fuck it. I’m sure Rosalia’s shows will be great. But I’m Listing dozens of shows for like $20 that will be even better. So, recommended for morons.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speaking of Capitalism, this is right down the block from the new Uptown bulked-up watered-down (but still very good) spot from the Frenchette team, Le Rock.
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Monday, September 19, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Makaya McCraven
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
7:30 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$38.11
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As far as I’m concerned (I know you were wondering), drummer/producer Makaya McRaven is one of the best people in music right now. His beat-inflected jazz is, if not the way forward, one way forward: abstracted Alt Hip-Hop played in a way that clearly emerges from The Jazz Tradition. You can’t quite dance to it (at least I can’t), but you can think to it — and most important, listen to it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mediterranean-inflected New American out of the big oven at Victor.
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Monday, September 19, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
William Basinski
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
7:30 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
William Basinski fucks around with sound, indeed with your very notions of sound, of music, of what they can be. He’s been at it for decades — and he’s still out ahead.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good Lebanese at Manouseh.
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Monday, September 19, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Music Mondays: The Claremont Trio
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
7:30 PM
Advent Lutheran Church
2504 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It isn’t that surprising that the Claremont Trio play as one person, since two of them are twins (they do seem to have a new non-twin pianist, though). Tonight they play music by three composers the Trio emphasizes are Jewish Americans — Judd Greenstein, Bernstein, and Gershwin — and one composer I’ll empasize isn’t: Brahms.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speaking of Jewish Americans, Kosher barbecue at Izzy’s Smokehouse.
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Monday, September 19, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Gertrude Stein: Four Saints in Three Acts
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 & 22 – 25, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 9)
7:00 PM MONDAY & THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Doxsee @ Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$15-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Hot on the heels of his revival of his antic epic one-person performance of The Patsy — as much fun as I’ve ever had in a theater in my life — NYC theater great David Greenspan premieres a one-person performance of Gertrude Stein’s libretto to Four Saints in Three Acts. You won’t walk out humming, as you do from the opera — but I guaranty you you’ll walk out grinning.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bow down before El Rey de Pescado.
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Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 25, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – SUNDOWN TUESDAY – THURSDAY
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM FRIDAY – SUNDAY
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Advance ticket required: $18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 – 25, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 – 25, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train. The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, September 18, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Rosalia
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 & 19, 2022
8:00 PM
Radio City Music Hall
1260 6th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
Dynamic pricing so I don’t fucking know but whatever it is IT’S TOO MUCH
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You probably already know how great Rosalia and her Future Flamenco are — very much including her most recent album (featuring Caroline Shaw, for the beknighted kind of List reader who’s afraid of contemporary pop music). So having noted the existence of these shows, let me instead rant for a moment about Big Time Mainstream Pop Concerts and dyamic pricing. As far as I’m concerned, this is a perfect example of the utter pernicious evil of what is over-optimistically referred to as Late Stage Capitalism. The Market rules all — and no one wants to leave any money on the table. Tickets are priced solely (and fluctuatingly) according to market. So — the pop music market being as overhyped as it is — prices for desirable shows immediately shoot up to stupid levels, making them attainable only by the rich and the idiotically improvident. I say fuck it. I’m sure Rosalia’s shows will be great. But I’m Listing dozens of shows for like $20 that will be even better. Recommended for morons. And stooges.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speaking of Capitalism, this is right down the block from the new Uptown bulked-up watered-down (but still very good) spot from the Frenchette team, Le Rock.
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Sunday, September 18, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Remembering Tomasz Stanko
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tomas Stanko was a breathtaking trumpeter: he had Miles’s recessed tone, but with an underlying tranquility (and toughness) rather than neuroticism (which is not to say that he — or anyone this side of Coltrane and Rollins — was as great as Miles). Tonight a truly staggering array of like-minded players pay Stanko tribute.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Outstanding Palestinian at AlBadawi.
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Sunday, September 18, 2022, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
William Basinski
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 & 19, 2022
6:30 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
William Basinski fucks around with sound, indeed with your very notions of sound, of music, of what they can be. He’s been at it for decades — and he’s still out ahead.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good Lebanese at Manouseh.
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Sunday, September 18, 2022, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, September 18, 2022, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, September 18, 2022, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Village Voices
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
3:00 PM
The Village Trip
St. John’s in the Village
218 West 11th Street, West Village, Manhattan
$20; $15 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Music by such Village-associated composers as Cage, Cowell, Crawford Seeger, and Bonds interspersed with poetry by such Village-associated writers as St. Vincent Millay, Baldwin, Barnes, and Cather.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: St. Tropez is one attractive wine bar.
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Sunday, September 18, 2022, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Diego Sánchez Haase: Ñomongeta
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
2:00 PM
National Museum of the American Indian
One Bowling Green, FiDi, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The first opera in the Chilean indiginous Guarani language, combining Andean vernacular elements with contemporary opera style.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It is not clear whether the delightful Southern Italian Gigino at Wagner Park — some of the most pleasant outdoor dining in New York — will return after this season. So get it while you can.
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Saturday, September 17, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jae Soto
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jae Soto: electropop out of John Cage. How could this List not adore her?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Neighborhood Roman at Camillo.
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Saturday, September 17, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Taylor Brook: Star Maker Fragments
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
8:00 PM
DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Pay what you wish
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The expert and exploratory TAK Ensemble performs the world live premiere of Taylor Brook’s setting of excerpts from what is perhaps the most highly acclaimed novel in all Sci Fi: Olaf Stapledon’s visionary — perhaps a better word is “crazed” (no, really, it has a deep philosophical basis) — 1930s exploration of, like, the entire universe and its history. The music — which has garnered raves in recorded form (I’ve heard only pieces myself) — promises to be as phantasmagorical as the novel, with extended techniques, electronic enhancements, found sounds, etc.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Not too hot out for great, hearty Central Asian at Farida.
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Saturday, September 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bowers Fader Duo
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
7:30 PM
The Village Trip
St. John’s in the Village
218 West 11th Street, West Village, Manhattan
$20; $15 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The mezzo-guitar duo performs stuff by composers including List regulars Randall Woolf and Victoria Bond.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Boring deracinated French for Americans afraid of food at Cafe Cluny.
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Saturday, September 17, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
American Symphony Orchestra
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
7:00 PM
Bryant Park, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The American Symphony Orchestra, led by former wunderkind Leon Botstein, presents a sort of love letter to New York City. There’s Copland’s (I can see Copland’s grade school out of my dining room window) eloquent noir classic trumpet showcase, Quiet City. There’s Louise Talma, an excellent Mid-Century Modern composer lost to the Standard Rep only because she lacked Y chromosomes. And there’s William Grant Still: not this List’s cup of tea, perhaps, but kept out of the Standard Rep, when so many composers in the same style who aren’t as good as him are in there, only because of melanin. There’s Jacob Druckman, a key player in the late-20th Century Mainstream Modern scene here. And then there’s Mahler — his rarely heard but rather wonderful (if anachronistic) Bach Suite — whom New York City arguably killed. He fought his way into the Standard Rep decades after his death.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Upscale Sichuan at Café China.
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Saturday, September 17, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Nite Bjuti
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
7:00 PM
CultureHub NYC In Person & Live Stream
47 Great Jones Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$15 in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If I told you that Val Jeanty (electronics) was in a trio with Candice Hoyes (vocals) and Mimi Jones (bass), you’re really want to hear it, right? Afro-Caribbean goes hyper-modern.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, might as well go to Atla for Mezcal/Tequila and Mexican café food. Streaming at home, celebrate with a Haitian Flyer: pour 1-1/2 oz. Barbancourt Rum, 1/4 oz. lime juice, and 1/2 teaspoon Simple Syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a rocks glass over ice. Top with Champagne. Garnish with a lime quarter.
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Saturday, September 17, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Meta-Phys Ed.: The Banality of Evil
THURSDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 & 17, 2022 (continuing through SEPTEMBER 24)
7:00 PM
The Tank
312 West 36th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$20-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A neo-noir take on Hannah Arendt’s study of how ordinary normal people become murderous authoritarian/totalitarians (or authoritarian/totalitarian-supporters). Not that that could possibly have any relevance here now.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: One is suspicious of the Pan-Asian at Hidden Leaf. But who knows?
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Saturday, September 17, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Penny Arcade: Longing Lasts Longer
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
7:00 PM
The Village Trip
Pangea NYC
178 2nd Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Performance icon Penny Arcade’s longrunning examination of 50 years of pop culture returns to New York.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: There’s a $20 minimum on top of the entrance fee — but drink it, don’t eat it. Then, go around the corner to John’s of 12th Street for some more classic Red Sauce (including plant-based for those who care).
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Saturday, September 17, 2022, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, September 17, 2022, 1:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Arts for Art: InGardens
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 & 18, 2022
1:30 PM
El Jardín del Paraiso
710 East 5th Street, East Village, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two afternoons of Free Jazz. Sentimental favorite is the tribute to the irreplaceable Jaimie Branch at 2:30 PM on Saturday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The supernal Puerto Rican spot Casa Adela is, thankfully, still in business.
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Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 10:30 PM – Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
NY Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 & 17, 2022 (ongoing)
10:30 PM
Kraine Theater In Person & SATURDAY Live Stream
85 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Theater for people who think they don’t like theater. Thirty short plays crammed into an hour, semi-improvised, semi-not, non-illusionistic, spur-of-the-moment, real (whatever that means).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I dunno why, but it seems like you’d go to Phebe’s. Streaming at home, have a Monkey Wrench: pour 2 oz. light Rum and 4 oz. grapefruit juice (pink, if you can swing it) into either an Old Fashioned glass or a Collins glass over ice. Stir. Garnish with a cocktail cherry. Or not.
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Friday, September 16, 2022, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
HVOB: “TOO” Tour
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
10:00 PM
Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Avenue, Maspeth, Queens
$35.80
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What can I tell you, I love the Viennese electronic duo HVOB. I love their melding of vocals and melodies with glitchy rhythm tracks. I love the way Anna Müller (who is NOT Anne Müller) sings. I love that everybody else who hears them ends up loving them, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Local-grain Italian out of the oven at Faro.
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Friday, September 16, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Genevieve Simon: Bloom Bloom Pow
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 – 18, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 2)
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
A.R.T./New York Theatres
502 West 53rd Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$17.74-$33.69
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A Queer climate doom comedy — inspired by The Creature from the Black Lagoon!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Plausible Peruvian at Inti.
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Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Marissa Joyce Stamps: Blue Fire Burns the Hottest
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 – 18, 2022 (continuing through SEPTEMBER 24)
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Exponential Festival
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two Black men carry on a boxing rivalry that has endured through generations of their families — figuring out, as they fight, that there is an extraneous power forcing this on them.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pinsa and other Roman specialities at Montesacro (a friend just texted me from dinner there and was LOVING it).
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Friday, September 16, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brandon Lopez-Gerald Cleaver-Mark Manieri Trio
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Donation requested
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With these three guys, anything can happen (but whatever it is, it’ll be extremely well-played).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unexpected but not really incongrouous Japanese-Ashkenazi mash-up at Shalom Japan.
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Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Friday, September 16, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Andrew Yee: Halfie
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
7:30 PM
The Greene Space In Person & Live Stream
44 Charlton Street, Hudson Square, Manhattan
$15 in person; free live stream
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Andrew Yee is an incredibly charismatic and vibrant cellist. Tonight they explore their divided natures as inter-racial and transitioning — through, moreover, a set of pieces by a really stellar list of Alt and Contemporary Classical composers. And if we’re really lucky, Yee’s baby son will be in the audience, who’s even more charismatic than they are.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let’s keep trying to get into the tiny Basque restaurant Haizea. Streaming at home, have a Half and Half: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of sweet Vermouth and grapefruit juice and 1/8 teaspoon Campari into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE / OPERA
nora chipaumire: Nehanda
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 – 18, 2022
7:30 PM FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Peak Performances
Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University
1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey
$40 per show; $72 all three shows
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Nora chipaumire is fierce — ferocious, even — and totally unafraid (she also seems to have some affinity for the letter “f”). Oh, and don’t forget charismatic. Her dance-theater is raw, and it hits hard — while happily remaining enigmatic and suggestive rather than obvious or simplistic. This is a three-part “Judicial Opera” — a different part each day of the run — based on the adjudication of a South African native uprising against the British Imperialists during the Victorian period. (Chipaumire trained as a lawyer in Zimbabwe before she became a dancer here in the U.S., so the usual suspicions of non-lawyer artists attacking legal themes don’t apply.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s not that there’s only one good restaurant in Montclair — there are lots — but that there’s only one within walking distance of Montclair State: New American treat Turtle & The Wolf.
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Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dezron Douglas: The Not Too Suite
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 & 17, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & SATURDAY Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$30-$40 in person; $20 live stream
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Bassist Dezron Douglas had a Good Lockdown, sharpening his focus and coming out with a string of pleasing but by no means coddling music. Here he premieres a long-form piece with a really solid band.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, hand rolls at KazuNori. Streaming at home, have an Upper Cut: pour 1-1/4 oz. Cointreau, 3/4 oz. Cachaça, and 1/2 oz. each of grapefruit juice and lemon juice, with 1 dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a grapefruit twist.
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Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Joel Ross: Being a Young Black Man
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 & 17, 2022
7:30 PM
Harlem Stage
150 Convent Avenue, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
$25-$35
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A long-form autobiographical piece by the best jazz vibes player of our time, who’s also a good composer.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I just went to ROKC — Ramen Oysters Cocktails Kitchen — for the first time since Lockdown, and boy is it still good. (That I couldn’t stop downing Singapore Slings is my problem.)
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Friday, September 16, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Quo Vadis: Aaron Dilloway/Pharmakon/Hiro Kone/Bookworms
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
7:00 PM
Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Avenue, Maspeth, Queens
$30.65
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There are two great shows at Knockdown Center tonight (truth to tell, this is the greater of the two). Four really fascinating electronic music artists. Like, REALLY fascinating.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Beer and art and stuff (while it’s still technically Summer) at Brooklyn Beer Garden.
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Friday, September 16, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Roberto Maqueda/Andreas Eduardo Frank
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
7:00 PM
Spectrum
481 Van Brunt Street, Door 7A, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$15; $10 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The big mystery about this concert of experimental music from Switzerland is whether it’s actually proceeding. I can’t get any confirmation. Good luck.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hometown Bar B Cue might be worse than it used to be. But it’s right there.
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Friday, September 16, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Accordion Festival
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
7:00 PM
Bryant Park, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
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If anything’s as good as puppets, it’s accordions! (In this case, from Afghanistan, Ukraine, and the Tex/Mex border.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: To tell the truth, Charlie Palmer’s new Aperitivo bar and restaurant AperiBar looks really lame.
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Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
The Wooster Group feat. Eric Berryman: Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 & 17, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 7)
7:00 PM
Performing Garage
33 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan
$38
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Another of The Wooster Group’s “live record albums”, this time a performance of a collection of examples of the Black American storytelling form called Toasts. Dolemite fans need not hesitate.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: From one garage to another: Antique Garage is so cute that you tend to forget how good the food is. And, it was Mediterranean before everybody and his brother were.
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Thursday, September 15, 2022, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
The Dance Cartel: 10 Years on the Floor
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
9:00 PM
3 Dollar Bill
260 Meserole Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Multimedia multisensory dance FUN. A special edition featuring company alums.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vegans like Champs Diner, and non-vegans don’t mind it.
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Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
One-Eighth: My Onliness
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 – 18, 2022 (continuing through SEPTEMBER 24)
8:30 PM THURSDAY
7:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
New Ohio Theatre In Person & THURSDAY Live Stream
154 Christopher Street, West Village, Manhattan
$25; $17 in person students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Polish proto-Dada (there are so many things to discover in this great wide world of ours). With music by Kamala Sankaram!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: in person, picture-perfect neighborhood Italian at Malatesta Trattoria. Streaming at home, have a Szarlotka Cocktail: pour 1 oz. ice-cold Żubrówka Bison Grass Vodka and 2 oz. apple juice into an Old Fashioned glass (you decide whether you want any ice). Stir in a pinch of cinnamon.
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Thursday, September 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Fire Over Heaven
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
8:00 PM
Outpost Artists Resources
1665 Norman Street, Ridgewood, Queens
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The usual well-curated assortment of fascinating noise. Actually, this installment looks a bit less noisy than usual.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: See what’s brewing at Evil Twin.
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Thursday, September 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Cassie Wieland: Birthday Party
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
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Cassie Wieland is one of those people who make Alt Classical music that is very nice to listen to without being at all insipid. This show features a variety of new works performed by a variety of ensembles. Maybe the most exciting one is a new project in which Wieland herself plays called Vines that does that great Rennaisance-to-now thing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, let’s do the last Tiki drink of the season, a Yellow Bird: squeeze the juice of half a lime into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Pour in 1 oz. each of light and dark Rum, 1/4 oz. Galliano, and 1-1/4 oz. orange juice. Shake. Strain into a Collins glass over (preferably crushed) ice. Garnish with a cocktail cherry and a mint sprig.
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Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Momenta Quartet: Momenta Festival
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 – 18, 2022
7:30 PM
Broadway Presbyterian Church
601 West 114th Street (entrance on Broadway), Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free (donation to Music For Food requested)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The annual four-night festival wherein each member of the Momenta Quartet gets to curate one evening’s performance. World premieres, modern classics and should-be-classics, the occasional Standard Rep.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sophisticated Chinese at Atlas Kitchen.
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Thursday, September 15, 2022, 7:30 PM – 9:59 PM
MUSIC
Graham Haynes & Adam Rudolph
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$30-$40; $20 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Graham Haynes on boundary-busting trumpet/cornet and Adam Rudolph on a broad range of percussion: this is going to be interesting.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, infused cocktails that are either too much or just enough, depending on how you like at Apotheke, which just opened a new branch uptown in NoMad. Streaming at home, have a somewhat more temperate Nevada: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of light Rum and grapefruit juice and 1 oz. of lime juice, with 2 teaspoons of sugar and 1 dash of Peychaud’s bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lime wedge.
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Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Lydia Johnson Dance
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 – 17, 2022
7:30 PM
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$35-$125; $20 students/seniors/dancers
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lydia Johnson is one of those choreographers who closely attend to the music they are setting, like Balanchine and Mark Morris. Tonight’s music is by Chopin, ETHEL, Górecki, and The Bad Plus. Oh, and did I mention that Craig Hall will be guest-dancing?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let’s go back to El Quijote for more fun fun fun (even if their menu is beginning to dumb down — as you knew it would).
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Thursday, September 15, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
LayeRhythm (On The Move): Passion Fruit Dance Company
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
7:30 PM
Works and Process
Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$5-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Vernacular dance styles, choreographed and improvised (excitingly).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Light Viennese at Café Sabarsky.
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Thursday, September 15, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Meta-Phys Ed.: The Banality of Evil
THURSDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 & 17, 2022 (continuing through SEPTEMBER 24)
7:00 PM
The Tank
312 West 36th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$20-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A neo-noir take on Hannah Arendt’s study of how ordinary normal people become murderous authoritarian/totalitarians (or authoritarian/totalitarian-supporters). Not that that could possibly have any relevance here now.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: One is suspicious of the Pan-Asian at Hidden Leaf. But who knows?
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Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Yuka C Honda: Food Sovereignty — Farm Psychedelica
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 17, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Yuka Honda was a food writer before she was a musician, and from her famous band whose name meant “Crazy Food” she’s kept the interest. So the theme of this residency comes as no surprise. What is always surprising are Honda’s antic musical conceptions — which the variegated format of a Stone residency will only gaily exacerbate.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Orlando Furioso feat. Rick Burkhardt
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Pay What You Can-$20; free students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Wet Ink Ensemble presents a new piece by the ineffable Kate Soper (if anyone so word-driven can be called “ineffable) played by Orlando Furioso, the band of its 2022-23 Artist in Residence Vincente Hansen Atria, joined by another of its 2022-23 Artists in Residence, Space Cowboy Rick Burkhardt. Orlando Furioso, a sort of microtonal Alt Classical Andean folk-meets-Rennaisance/Baroque band (the last time that happened it didn’t go so well for the Andeans), will also play its own set. Wotta night.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great pita, good stuff to put on it at Bedouin Tent.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Reid Anderson/Good Intentions/Matteo Liberatore & Jason Nazary
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
8:00 PM
Littlefield
635 Sackett Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$12 advance; $15 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Matteo Liberatore is a questing guitarist; Jason Nazary is a similarly questing drummer/electronic musician. Reid Anderson is the bassist of The Bad Plus (hey wait they’re now a quartet?), here leading his own trio. If any of you knows who or what Good Intentions are, please let me know.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Slightly Mediterranean-inflected New American out of the oven at Victor.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Robert Rucker Project
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
Smalls
183 West 10th Street, West Village, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It’ll be interesting to hear Contemporary Classical composer/reedman/Wet Ink honcho Alex Mincek blow some fairly straight-ahead jazz.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fairly deracinated fairly overrated tacos at Empellón Taqueria.
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Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
The Institute of Useless Activity: THIS and THAT
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 17, 2022 (continuing through SEPTEMBER 24)
7:00 PM
Chocolate Factory
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, Queens
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
”THAT” is the creation of the universe; “THIS” is the people within it. A bunch of imagistic vignettes.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Brazilian from nice people at Beija Flor.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Festival of New Trumpet Music: Keyon Harrold & Next Gen
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$30-$40 in person
TICKETS + INFORMATION
For all his claims of being forward-looking, trumpeter Keyon Harrold’s jazz is actually kind of backward-looking: it sounds like early-’60s mainstream played by someone who’s been exposed to hip-hop. But it’s sure better than, say, Miles’s ‘80s Warner albums.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You know Korean-French mash-up LittleMäd is intense cuz it’s got an umlaut.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Lim Yang, Chris Bullock, Grey McMurray, Gary Jones
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
7:00 PM
Mama Tried
787 Third Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
Donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What knocks this quartet out of the park is the presence of guitarist Grey McMurray, an incredibly interesting inside/outside writer and player who usually spends his time on the border of Alt Classical and spacy Alt Rock.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The food at the venue, Mama Tried, is totally edible. The drinks are fine (they make their own vermouth!).
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Bijayini Satpathy: Dohā
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
7:00 PM
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
OK I get it: you’re sick of my nattering about Indian Classical dance. But really, there’s nothing like it for its extreme precision of movement conveying waves of emotional and intellectual heat — but the heat is all deep down underneath: not repressed, no, just not overemphatic (but not prissy, either, as my beloved French Baroque can be). Anyway, Bijayini Satpathy is a leading exponent of the Eastern Indian Odissi style (notable to us music lovers for its unusual use of both Karnatic and Hindustani ragas).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The very Old Skool German at the Heidelberg Restaurant (the last Old Yorkville German Place standing) is really good.
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Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Victor I. Cazares: american (tele)visions
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 – 18, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 16)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
New York Theater Workshop
79 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$45
INFORMATION + TICKETS
More multiverse! This time surrounding an undocumented Mexican family.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pub grub that is far better than it has any right to be at Sidney’s Five.
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Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Gracie Gardner: I’m Revolting
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 – 18, 2021 (continuing through OCTOBER 16)
7:00 PM TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Linda Gross Theater, The Atlantic Theater Company
336 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$25-$97
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Gracie Gardner goes pro with what will undoubtedly be a hilarious look at skin cancer treatment.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Homestyle Palestinian at Qanoon.
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Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Daniel K. Isaac: ONCE UPON A (korean) TIME
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 – 18, 2022
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
1:00 PM SATURDAY
Summer Shares
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$60-$80
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ma-Yi Theater Company presents a fabulist multi-generational account of a Korean-American family (and the prejudice they faced duh).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern Korean at Soogil.
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Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 – 18, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – SUNDOWN TUESDAY – THURSDAY
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM FRIDAY – SUNDAY
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Advance ticket required: $18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 7:27 AM – 8:06 PM
PERFORMANCE
Sarah Cameron Sunde: 36.5/New York Estuary
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
7:27 AM – 8:06 PM
The Cove
31-10 Vernon Boulevard, Astoria, Queens
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sarah Cameron Sunde has been performing 36.5/A Durational Performance with the Sea since 2013, going to various locations throughout the world and standing in seawater for a full tide cycle, as the water engulfs her and then recedes (good thing she didn’t try it at the Bay of Fundy). She caps off the project at Hallett’s Cove in Astoria — which happily for her has just been cleaned up.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: If you go early, coffee at Chateau le Woof. Later on, Diamond Dogs: a very good cocktail bar indeed.
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Monday, September 12, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dan Tepfer & Thomas Enhco
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
8:00 PM
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20 suggested donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dan Tepfer and Thomas Enhco are sort of two sides of the same French coin (even if Tepfer now lives here). They’re rooted in jazz, they’re rooted in classical, they’re aware of pop — and they draw on everything. Don’t hold it against them that the first place they played duets was a douchey winery now trying not to seem so.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thai seafood at Fish Cheeks.
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Monday, September 12, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Inna Faliks: Reimagine Ravel
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
7:30 & 9:00 PM
The Crypt Sessions
Church of the Intercession
550 West 155th Street, Hudson Heights, Manhattan
$85
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pianist Inna Faliks matches Ravel’s impossible Gaspard de la Nuit with new, shorter pieces by Timo Andres, Paola Prestini, and Billy Childs.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Each performance is preceded by an hour-long reception featuring bad wine and bad cheese. If you want something better, it will come as no surprise that The Handpulled Noodle specializes in Northwestern Chinese handpulled noodles.
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Monday, September 12, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Wilfredo Terrazas: The Torres Cycle
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
7:00 PM
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Mexican composer/improviser/flautist Wilfredo Terrazas is WILD.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go UES native at the bar at Daniel.
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Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 – 18, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 – 18, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train. The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, September 11, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, September 11, 2022, 12:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
NY Neo-Futurists
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
12:30 PM
Little Island, Meatpacking District, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Neo-Futurists bring their neo-Futurism to Little Island, where they’ll be popping up all over.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sichuan-leaning Not Just Noodles at Hao Noodle.
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Saturday, September 10, 2022, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Beacon/Kaleida
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
9:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$26.17
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The electronic pop of Brooklyn’s Beacon is sometimes scintillating, sometimes boring. The synth-pop of London’s Kaleida is more attuned to the low tastes of people like me.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Satisfying vaguely Mediterranean-inflected New American out of the oven at Victor.
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Saturday, September 10, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Fred Moten, Brandon Lopez & Gerald Cleaver/Pamela Z/SYANIDE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room @ First Unitarian Congregational Society
116 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Is that line-up awesome enough for you?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It is so nice that there’s now a place in Brooklyn Heights that can be recommended without qualification: the absolutely wonderful Inga’s Bar.
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Saturday, September 10, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Anna Webber: Simple Trio
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Early Show Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$20-$30 in person; $20 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Saxophonist/flautist Anna Webber is one of the gems of the Brooklyn jazz scene. With pianist Matt Mitchell and percussionist John Hollenbeck as her rhythm section, wanna bet this trio won’t be all that simple?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, you know Korean-French mash-up LittleMäd is intense cuz it’s got an umlaut. Streaming at home, have an Old Pal: pour 1-1/2 oz. of Bourbon and 3/4 oz. each of dry Vermouth and Campari into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into either a chilled Martini glass or coupe or a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with either a lemon twist or an orange twist.
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Saturday, September 10, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Foodmasku: Dining In
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
7:30 PM
The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street, Boerum Hill, Brookly
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Foodmasku became famous (or at least “famous”) during Lockdown for posting pictures of himself with superimposed “masks” of food he’d eaten. Now he and friends take it live. It culminates with the audience wearing food masks as well.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: That show will make you hungry for REAL food, and the Convivencia-inspired Spanish food at La Vara will hit the spot.
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Saturday, September 10, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Improvisations: Adam Rudolph’s Go: Organic Orchestra feat. Hassan Hakmoun, Dave Liebman, Graham Haynes, and Brooklyn Raga Massive/Gift of Gnawa honoring Don Cherry/Brandee Younger and Joel Ross/Angel Bat Dawid (DJ Set)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
7:00 PM
Summerstage
Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Well THAT’S a rather astonishing agglomeration of talent.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A legendary burger at JG Melon.
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Saturday, September 10, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
TŌN: Walker/Joan Tower/Mahler
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 & 11, 2022
7:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Fisher Center, Bard College In Person & Live Stream
60 Manor Avenue, Red Hook, Dutchess County
$29.50-$39.50 in person; Pay What You Will Live Stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What an appealing program: George Walker’s gorgeous Lilacs; longtime Bard faculty member Joan Tower’s Flute Concerto (I still don’t understand why Tower hasn’t attained a Copland level of fame) — and Mahler’s Fifth, no less .
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, once you’ve schlepped as far as Red Hook (the Upstate one: even more of schlep than the one in Brooklyn), you might as well keep schlepping to Pine Plains for Old American (lot of that going around these days) at Stissing House — from one of the chefs behind King! Streaming at home, have an Abbey: pour 1-1/2 oz. Gin and 3/4 oz. each of Kina L’Avion d’Or (or Cocchi Americano or even Lillet Blanc) and orange juice, with 2 dashes of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Saturday, September 10, 2022, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, September 10, 2022, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Nao Bustamente: Bloom
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
3:00 PM
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A performance piece about specula.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A friend just reminded me of the existence of classic French Sel et Poivre. Thanks!
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Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 2:00 PM – Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Bushwig 11
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 & 11, 2022
2:00 PM
Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Avenue, Maspeth, Queens
$67.30 2-Day Pass; $133.65 2-Day VIP Pass
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Queer Afropunk!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nothing fills me with more joy than the prospect of a battalion of Queer performance devotées descending en masse on Gottscheer Hall.
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Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 1:00 PM – Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Afropunk Festival
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 & 11, 2022
1:00 PM
Commodore Barry Park
Flushing Avenue & Navy Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$110 SATURDAY; $135 SUNDAY; $185 SATURDAY & SUNDAY; $140 VIP Add-On
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This annual festival of forward-looking Black pop music is so great that it’s hard to convey. Every year: it’s spectacular. I guess the big stars this year are Burna Boy and The Roots (and let’s not forget Earl Sweatshirt). But this List is excited about its beloved Tierra Whack.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lots to graze on on-site. But you can also grab one of the surprisingly delicious chopped subs at Farmer in the Deli.
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Saturday, September 10, 2022, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sybarite5: The Revolve Tour
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
1:00 & 3:00 PM
Rite of Summer
Nolan Park, Governors Island, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This show by string quintet Sybarite5 centers on a new piece by Andy Akiho — reason enough to get on the ferry! — but also features stuff by such composers as Aleksandra Vrebalov and Jessica Meyer (and Alt Pop arrangements).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lots to eat and drink on Governors Island, with a special mention of the douchey but not unappealing Riviera Maya transplant Gitano Island.
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Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 12:00 PM – Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Flatbed Follies
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 & 11, 2022
12:00 PM & TBD SATURDAY
TBD SUNDAY
SATURDAY 12:00 PM: Albee Square, Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn
SATURDAY TBD: Vanderbilt Avenue Open Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
SUNDAY: Jennings Street Street btw. Prospect Avenue & Chisolm Street, Charlotte Gardens, Bronx
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus takes it to the street! (Hey wait: that’s MY street!)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Saturday in Downtown Brooklyn, the DeKalb Market food court downstairs in City Point (really!). Saturday in Prospect Heights, you can’t eat better in Brooklyn — by which I mean in New York City — than at Mitchell’s Soul Food. Sunday in Charlotte Gardens, Jamaican at Back Home #2.
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Fri, Sep 9, 2022, 10:30 PM – Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
NY Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 & 10, 2022 (ongoing)
10:30 PM
Kraine Theater
85 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Theater for people who think they don’t like theater. Thirty short plays crammed into an hour, semi-improvised, semi-not, non-illusionistic, spur-of-the-moment, real (whatever that means).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I dunno why, but it seems like you’d go to Phebe’s.
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Friday, September 9, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Rootless/Jessica Pavone-Tristan Kasten Krause/Jeff Tobias
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Ticket price TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
More experimental improvisational music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unexpected but not really incongruous Japanese-Ashkenazi mash-up at Shalom Japan.
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Fri, Sep 9, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Victor I. Cazares: american (tele)visions
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 – 11, 2022
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 & 7:00 PM SUNDAY
New York Theater Workshop
79 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$25 FRIDAY & SATURDAY; $35 SUNDAY
INFORMATION + TICKETS
More multiverse! This time surrounding an undocumented Mexican family.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pub grub that is far better than it has any right to be at Sydney’s Five.
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Friday, September 9, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Vinnie Golia: Music for Large Ensemble
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students’seniors door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Just don’t call it Third Stream. (Wait, why not?)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic New American at As You Are. Streaming at home, have a Keeneland Breeze: pour 1-1/4 oz. Bourbon, 1/4 oz. Curaçao, and a squeeze of juice from an orange into a rocks glass over ice. Top with Ginger Ale or Ginger Beer. Garnish with an orange wedge.
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Fri, Sep 9, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / DANCE
Lydia Mokdessi & Jason Bartel: DEVOTION DEVOTION IV
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 – 11, 2022
7:30 PM FRIDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$5-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A durational piece (more durational on Saturday and Sunday than on Friday) for dance, guitar, and voice that promises a pleasurable meditative experience within a harsh audiovisual environment — with a different guest star each performance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A lot of highly touted food trucks, you go to them and you can't help but think everybody's deluding themselves. That is decidedly NOT the case with Birria-Landia, where the birria tacos are indeed transcendent.
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Fri, Sep 9, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
John Jasperse Projects: Visitation
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 & 10, 2022
7:30 PM
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Part seance, part exorcism (and, thankfully, part camp). Music by Hahn Rowe out of Wagner.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m pretty eager to get back to the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill for caviar pie and a Martini and some nondiscript main dish or other.
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Friday, September 9, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Patrick Zimmerli: “Messages”
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$30-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Saxophonist/composer Patrick Zimmerli — whose music sounds in jazz charts and Milton Babbit — presents a suite for four saxes and rhythm section, played by a really incredible band.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Infused cocktails that are either too much or just enough, depending on how you like at Apotheke, which just opened a new branch uptown in NoMad.
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Friday, September 9, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Lieven Martens/JAB
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$23.69
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Electronic explorations of the less noisy variety.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Korean at Insa (as always, stay out of the ugly noisy dining room and opt for the plush bar/lounge).
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Friday, September 9, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Black String
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
7:00 PM
Chelsea Table & Stage
152 West 26th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$30 advance; $35 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you want Prog laced with tradition Korean instruments, Black String’s got you covered.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Best of all, this venue is RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET from the amazin West African (with a little Caribbean) steam-table buffet at B&B Restaurant (warning: the drinks at the venue look HORRIBLE).
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Fri, Sep 9, 2022, 5:00 PM – Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Satya Bhabha & Jonathan Bonnici: True Story
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 & 10, 2022
5:00 & 7:30 PM
The Doxsee @ Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$5-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Audience-participation overlapping narrative storytelling.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Ecuadorian notes are hit at La Carreta.
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Friday, September 9, 2022, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
David Rothenberg: Birthday Festival
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
4:00 PM
Estonian House
243 East 34th Street, Murray Hill, Manhattan
Price unspecified
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Reedsman/philosopher David Rothenberg — a totally unique stylist who isn’t Ned Rothenberg (it’s easy to keep him sorted from Sarah Rothenberg) — celebrates turning 60 with a bunch of surprise guest stars.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Venerable upscale Mexican at El Parador, a restaurant that is even older than David Rothenberg.
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Thursday, September 8, 2022, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Akeema-Zane “a2z”/SemiraTruth/massai/Nappy Nina
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
9:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$14.63
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Alt Hip-Hop.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Oaxacan food at Claro is really good — and the backyard garden is a wonderful place to eat when it isn’t too hot out.
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Thursday, September 8, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Marilyn Crispell, Joe Fonda & Harvey Sorgen: Dreamstruck
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
These are three great players, but for me the focus is on Marilyn Crispell, a pianist-composer whose mind works crabwise, never going where you think it will.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, great pita, good stuff to put on it at Bedouin Tent. Streaming at home, pretend it’s still Summer (sure feels like it is) whit a White Negroni Daiquiri: pour 1 oz. white Rum, 1/2 oz. each Lilet Blanc and Suze, 1 oz. lemon juice, and 2 teaspoons Simple Syrup, with 3 dashes of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Nick and Nora glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Thursday, September 8, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, September 8, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Festival of New Trumpet Music: Alexandra Ridout Trio/Sonny Singh
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
English trumpet ace Alexandra Ridout leading a newish (drumless) trio stands to reason. But who knew that Brooklyn dhol virtuouso Sonny Singh played trumpet as well?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: All the ham you could want at & Sons Ham Bar.
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Thursday, September 8, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gray/Smith
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
7:00 PM
Blank Forms
468 Grand Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Space-Americana. With, I’m happy to say, the emphasis on Space.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The newly revived, slightly relocated Nigerian spot Buka is now fully reopened. And boy is it good.
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Thursday, September 8, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Aaron Diehl & Orrin Evans
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
7:00 PM
Bryant Park, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
While you’re trying to think of two more consistently interesting jazz pianists (they’re out there — but not many) than the elegant Aaron Diehl and the more raucous Orrin Evans, I’ll point out that that Diehl and Evans will be compounding the interest by playing duets.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classy Sichuan at Café China.
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Thu, Sep 8, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Gracie Gardner: I’m Revolting
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 – 11, 2021 (continuing through OCTOBER 16)
7:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Linda Gross Theater, The Atlantic Theater Company
336 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$25-$77
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Gracie Gardner goes pro with what will undoubtedly be a hilarious look at skin cancer treatment.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Homestyle Palestinian at Qanoon.
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Thursday, September 8, 2022, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Jaanika Peerna: Glacier Elegy
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
6:30 PM
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20 suggested donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
“What would you do if you were handed the last piece of natural ice on Earth?”
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’ll admit I’m kind of sick of the kind of tarted-up “restaurant food” they serve at Estela. But they still do it better than most.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022, 8:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Brooklyn Rider
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 – 10, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The string quartet in a multi-night residency. Conrad Tao alert on Thursday!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Andy Statman Trio
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
8:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20 in person; free-$15 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Andy Statman, a Klezmer musician playing avant-jazz (and Klezmer).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Modern Mexican at Fonda. At home, have a surprisingly palatable Yellow Plum: pour 1-1/2 oz. Slivovitz, 1/2 oz. each orange and lemon juice, and 1/3 oz. each of Maraschino liqueur and Simple Syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Darsombra/GRIDFAILURE/Breeeze
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
7:00 PM
Mama Tried
787 Third Avenue, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
GRIDFAILURE makes noisy electronic music. Breeeze makes jaunty. As for Darsombra’s psych-with-visuals, well, you have to be there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The food at the venue, Mama Tried, is totally edible. The drinks are fine (they make their own vermouth!).
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Wed, Sep 7, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Minor Theater: Marie It’s Time
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 – 10, 2022 (continuing through SEPTEMBER 24)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
10:30 PM SATURDAY
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Hudson Square, Manhattan
$25-$45; first 10 tickets each performance $10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A fucked-up (their words) meta-theatrical musical mixtape of Woyzeck, with (as is increasingly common these days) Marie as the main focus rather than collateral damage.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian at Piccolo Cucina Osteria.
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Wed, Sep 7, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
The Institute of Useless Activity: THIS and THAT
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 – 10, 2022 (continuing through SEPTEMBER 24)
7:00 PM
Chocolate Factory
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, Queens
$20 through SEPTEMBER 9; $25 thereafter
TICKETS + INFORMATION
”THAT” is the creation of the universe; “THIS” is the people within it. A bunch of imagistic vignettes.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Brazilian from nice people at Beija Flor.
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Wed, Sep 7, 2022, 6:00 PM – Fri, Sep 9, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Daisy Press: Hildegard von Bingen
WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 – 9, 2022
6:00 & 7:30 PM
The Angel’s Share
The Catacombs, Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$80
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Hildegard is a great composer: one of the best in the European canon. But she’s become so popular that so much bullshit has attached to her. I guess the problem is that when you get that big (quite an achievement for an 12th Century abbess!), the mass audience being what it is, too many people go to you for extra-musical, extra-aesthetic reasons. So let’s get it straight: Hildegard’s music isn’t great because it works as therapy (if it does, I’m pretty sure that has more to do with the listener than the music). Hildegard’s music isn’t great because it functions as a backdrop for meditation (great art isn’t a backdrop for anything). Hildegard’s music is great because it works as music: tweaking conventions, surprising the listener, urgently conveying a unique vision.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sea Witch: a good bar, with good pub grub — and a giant aquarium!
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Tuesday, September 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Stephanie Lamprea: Quaking Aspen
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Nature music for voice and electronics from soprano Stephanie Lamprea.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, have a Green & Black Manhattan: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Rye and sweet Vermouth and 1 teaspoon of Zirbenz into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with a grapefruit twist.
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Tue, Sep 6, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Daniel K. Isaac: ONCE UPON A (korean) TIME
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 – 11, 2022 (continuing through SEPTEMBER 18)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
1:00 PM SATURDAY
Summer Shares
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$60-$80
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ma-Yi Theater Company presents a fabulist multi-generational account of a Korean-American family (and the prejudice they faced duh).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern Korean at Soogil.
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Monday, September 5, 2022, 12:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Arts for Art: InGardens
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
12:00 PM
El Jardín del Paraiso
710 East 5th Street, East Village, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An afternoon of Free Jazz, starting out with a children’s music workshop by Cooper-Moore, no less. Of the riches of the rest of the afternoon, the very first recital, combining the Free Jazz of Sam Newsome and Daniel Carter with the Alt Classical of Laura Cocks, is the most germane to this List’s concerns. But trust me: it’s all good.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The supernal Puerto Rican spot Casa Adela is, thankfully, still in business.
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Monday, September 5, 2022, 11:00 AM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
West Indian American Day Carnival Association: Labor Day Parade
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
11:00 AM (soon come)
Eastern Parkway, Crown Heights & Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The costumes! The music! THE COSTUMES!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You eat the West Indian food sold at stands along the parade route. It’s fab.
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Mon, Sep 5, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 – 11, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Sep 5, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 – 11, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train. The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, September 4, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
thingNY
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
7:30 PM
Coffey Street Studio
153 Coffey Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Pay What You Will
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Oh my. This List’s favorite band, playing music by various things and by another List superfave, Pamela Z. Opening is Nick Brooke, mashing some physical theater into his samplified music. If this List were any more excited, the scrolling function would stick.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As if that weren’t enough, you’ll be right up the street from the The Good Fork Pub with its new Korean-inflected pub menu!
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Sunday, September 4, 2022, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
loadbang: Evolution and “Quiver” Release Event
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
3:00 PM
OPERA America’s National Opera Center In Person & Live Stream
330 7th Avenue, Garment District, Manhattan
$23.05 in person; $12.41 students/seniors in person; free live stream
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The exciting and unique voice and winds/brass quintet loadbang celebrates the release of a new album by playing pieces from it. But what’s more, they’ll give a mini-career restrospective, performing key pieces from their repertoire over the years.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I am simply incapable of not sending you to the West African steam-table buffet at B&B Restaurant, an astounding value. Streaming at home, have a Baltimore Bang: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Bourbon and Apricot brandy, and 1 oz. lemon juice, with 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an orange slice and a cocktail cherry.
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Saturday, September 3, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Marina Herlop
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$26.17
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The shoegazy electropop of Marina Herlop isn’t as deep as she probably thinks it is (she was insufferable before she plugged in, when she mainly accompanied herself on piano). But it’s undeniably attractive.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Korean at Insa (as always, stay out of the ugly noisy dining room and opt for the plush bar/lounge).
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Saturday, September 3, 2022, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Theo Bleckmann: Endless Fields
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
6:30 PM
Little Island, Meatpacking District, Manhattan
Free
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The inventive, entrancing jazz/vernacular/classical vocalist Theo Bleckmann with his guitar/base-backed project.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Spectacular Thai at Ayada.
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Sat, Sep 3, 2022, 6:00 PM – Sun, Sep 4, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Saturday, September 3, 2022, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
William Hooker: Silver Fleece
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
3:00 PM
Colonel’s Row Building 10A, Governors Island, Manhattan
Free
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The great Free Jazz drummer William Hooker presents a “suite for outdoors”.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lots to eat and drink on Governors Island. Island Oyster remains so much better than it has to be, given its fabulous location and view, that you have to thank The Gods Of Capitalism for occasionally letting such things pass.
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Saturday, September 3, 2022, 12:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Parallel Exit
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
12:30 PM
Little Island, Meatpacking District, Manhattan
Free
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Nouvelle Cirque/Physical Theater.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern Korean snacks (during the day — at night there’s full-throttle dinner) at Genesis House.
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Friday, September 2, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mark Dressner, Zeena Parkins, Jessica Pavone, Daniel Carter, Ingrid Laubrock, Brandon Lopez & Cecilia Lopez
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Donation requested
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The cream of the Brooklyn-Queens/Downtown/wherever experimental improvisational crop.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unexpected but not really incongruous Japanese-Ashkenazi mash-up at Shalom Japan.
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Friday, September 2, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Here and Now Festival: Phillip Bush
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
7:00 PM
Bargemusic
1 Water Street, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn
$35
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Kicking off Bargemusic’s Labor Day New Music Festival, pianist Phillip Bush plays, among other things, solo piano music by Hannah Lash, who writes some of the sensuously appealing music around.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Say goodbye to Summer at formal New American treat The River Café: the tourist trap that isn’t one.
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Thursday, September 1, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Razor-N-Tape Presents: Make a Joyful Noise
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
8:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$20.60
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Another of those fun nights where a Nu Jazz ensemble weaves in and out of tracks played by really good DJs.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Oaxacan food at Claro is really good — and the backyard garden is a wonderful place to eat.
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Thu, Sep 1, 2022, 6:00 PM – Fri, Sep 2, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Sep 3, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Elias Stemeseder
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 – SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
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Sorta jazz/sorta classical pianist Elias Stemeseder has quietly been one of the more interesting musicians in New York since he moved here from Berlin (he’s originally from Salzburg) in 2015. It’s hard to choose between the several different ensembles he’s assembled for this run.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Tue, Aug 30, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Sep 4, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Daniel K. Isaac: ONCE UPON A (korean) TIME
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 – SEPTEMBER 4, 2022 (continuing through SEPTEMBER 18)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
1:00 PM SATURDAY
Summer Shares
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$45-$65 TUESDAY; $60-$80 WEDNESDAY–SUNDAY
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Ma-Yi Theater Company presents a fabulist multi-generational account of a Korean-American family (and the prejudice they faced duh).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern Korean at Soogil.
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Tue, Aug 30, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Sep 4, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 – SEPTEMBER 4, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 8:30 PM TUESDAY & THURSDAY
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Advance ticket required: $18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
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Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Mon, Aug 29, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Sep 4, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 – SEPTEMBER 4, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
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One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Aug 29, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Sep 4, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 – SEPTEMBER 4, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train. The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
